April 2012
4 posts
Fontaine Maru is not in Sunnyvale
Only its brain is :-) we swapped out the command-and-control unit and shipped it back to Sunnyvale. Fontaine is happily in Hawaii running with a transplanted brain. The old brain is being worked on in Sunnyvale. The software generating the data that goes into ERDDAP currently doesn’t track changes in vehicle ID numbers (we currently use the IMEI number from the Iridium modem). Yet...
navytim asked: What is the GPS update rate for the gliders? Does it vary or do you keep a steady schedule? What do you use to monitor the weather patterns that the gliders may encounter? Is the speed data that you get from the gilders an average or an instantaneous speed? The data is great, keep it up!
Windows App for Tracking PacX Data
As I mentioned earlier, a super fan of ours created an HP Touchpad app for the PacX data, after a few weeks of working on it he successfully ported it over to Windows! Go ahead and visit his website to check it out for yourself.
eakmetoc asked: I heard about this via and article my Mom sent me from the WSJ. I teach Oceanography for the University of Phoenix and formerly I was an Oceanographer for the Navy. I am SO excited about this experiment. I live in Guam so if you or your team ever find the need to come this way please let me know I'd be happy to be the local on the ground to help you out. .... do you have a fan page on...
